Thursday, May 19, 2011

How to Add a Signature To Posts

How to Add aSignature to Posts

What You Will Learn

Some bloggers include a pretty signature at the bottom of each of their posts. You can check out Ruby's Reads for a beautiful example. Today you'll learn three different ways to include a signature in your posts.

Let's Do This!

Before We Begin:

First you need to get your signature! A signature is just a picture, so you would use whatever program you usually use to make a picture. I've heard THIS SITE is pretty good and free. You'll also want to make sure you have a place to host the picture for Method 2 and Method 3. Photobucket and TinyPic are both free options.

See where it says center? You can change this to left or right to change the alignment of the picture. Save your changes.

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Pros:

Every post you make will automatically have this image in it.

You can easily remove the picture if you decide you don't want it on a particular post.

You can change the alignment of the picture from post to post

Cons:

Every post you make will have the picture appear in the Compose box, but you need to arrange it's position. It will always default to the top left, so just make sure you type your post before the signature otherwise your signature will appear first. This is an example of what the post box will look like:

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Method 3: The Slightly More Difficult Way

Go to Design----> Edit HTML and then click the Expand Widget Templates box. At this point you might want to save a backup copy of your code, just in case!

Thanks I'm going to try this, this weekend. I've tried doing it before using some other softward, but it didn't turn out right. So hopefully, this will be easy and simple and actually work for me. Thanks again.

Wow, this is so helpful! Thanks for the post (even though I already have a signature, I learned a few things).... I also wanted to mention that I'm holding my first giveaway right now. In case your interested!

Heather, LOL! I’m sure your skills are at least on par with mine :P That site I linked makes the signatures for you using various fonts, so you don’t have to have any photoshop skills.

Nic, I know, I know, I am truly gifted with photoshop. :P

Yiota, You’re welcome!

Lena, I hope this works for you. If you run into any trouble please feel free to come back and leave a comment here or email me and I’ll see if I can help further.

Alex, Me too. I look at other people’s signatures and think they’re so pretty but I haven’t found one that feels quite right yet. I like yours though. Your “A” is all swirly and pretty.

Alyssa, You’re welcome!

Stephanie, You’re welcome! I’m curious now to see what yours looks like :)

Missie, I knew I shouldn’t have included that signature. Explosions and near death. It’s downright dangerous! :P

Logan, It’s totally understandable that you’d covet it. :) But fear not, I’ve made you one now HERE. That blob on the left is a hat (with a feather) and the blob on the right is a magical wand. The dots are magical sparkles. Get ready for skyrocketing follower numbers and droves of onlookers.

(and, no, I don’t actually expect you to use it!)

Lulu, You’re so welcome! Thank you for the info on your giveaway. I’ve added it to my contest page for you :)

Alison, I’m glad you liked the post. Thank you for the compliment on my heart-drawing prowess :P

A Canadian Girl, Glad it was helpful! Method three is a little harder, but it’s not that hard. It’s more just that it always makes me nervous to mess with my blog code. I’m always afraid I’m going to accidentally mess up the whole thing.